From this it follows
that the delight of adultery is an infernal delight directly opposed
to the delight of marriage, which is a heavenly delight.
{Footnote 1} Adulteries are profane (n. 9961, 10174). Heaven
is closed to adulterers (n. 2750). Those that have experienced
delight in adulteries cannot come into heaven (n. 539, 2733,
2747-2749, 2751, 10175). Adulterers are unmerciful and
destitute of religion (n. 824, 2747, 2748). The ideas of
adulterers are filthy (n. 2747, 2748). In the other life they
love filth and are in filthy hells (n. 2755, 5394, 5722). In
the Word adulteries signify adulterations of good, and
whoredoms perversions of truth (n. 2466, 2729, 3399, 4865,
8904, 10648).
385. There were certain spirits who, from a practice acquired in the
life of the body, infested me with peculiar craftiness, and this by a
very gentle wave-like influx like the usual influx of well disposed
spirits; but I perceived that there was craftiness and other like
evils in them prompting them to ensnare and deceive. Finally, I
talked with one of them who, I was told, had been when he lived in
the world the leader of an army; and perceiving that there was a
lustfulness in the ideas of his thought I talked with him about
marriage, using spiritual speech with representatives, which fully
expresses all that is meant and many things in a moment.
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